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Author: Paul Holmes
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2011-05-16
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0857125702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Author: James Burnett
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0857124358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIr has been said that no music amplifies the french ideals of precision and good taste better than the work of Maurice Ravel, yet his background could scarecly have been more cosmopolitan. The son of a Swiss father and a Basque mother, he was born near St. Jean de Luz in 1875; he died in Paris at the age of sixty-two. His primary inspiration, and in consequence the character of his best music, came from art and life. He was exceptionally sensitive to the new current of thought and the aesthetic changes in the Arts following the First World War. Indeed, the music of Ravel is an accuarate reflection of the man himself. This lavishly illustrated book which sets the work and achievements of Ravel in the context of the events of his time, will appeal to the general music lover and also to the serious student.
Author: Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0310208068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
Author: Neil Wenborn
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0857124374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the remarkable course of a creative career which spanned the drawing rooms of the Imperial Russia and the social ferment of 1960s America, and serve to establish Stravinsky not only as the most celebrated composer of his time but also as one of the defining forces of twentieth-century culture.
Author: Robert Layton
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2011-05-16
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0857125672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA series of biographies of the great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times. This volume focuses on Grieg and draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer’s life.
Author: Paul Holmes
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780711965263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography draws on letters, diaries and personal reminiscences to tell the story of Vaughan Williams. Williams was heavily involved with the English folk movement, Tudor music and hymns, and his creations combined humour and mysticism.
Author: Stephen H. Smith
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-01-12
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 180046696X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy book begins with a brief consideration of what we mean by “English music” and what factors are involved. I explain the reasons behind my choice of composers for consideration, and for the omissions from the survey.
Author: Rob Young
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-05-10
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 1429965894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots music and update them for the new age. The records of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, and Nick Drake are known as "folk rock" today, but Rob Young's epic, electrifying book makes clear that those musicians led a decades-long quest to recover English music-and with it, the ancient ardor for mysticism and paganism, for craftsmanship and communal living. It is a commonplace that rock and R&B came out of the folk and blues revivals of the early 1960s, and Young shows, through enchanting storytelling and brilliant commentary, that a similar revival in England inspired the Beatles and Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Traffic, Kate Bush and Talk Talk. Folklorists notated old songs and dances. Marxists put folk music forward as the true voice of the people. Composers like Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams devised rich neo-traditional pageantry. Today, the pioneers of the "acid folk" movement see this music as a model for their own. Electric Eden is that rare book which has something truly new to say about popular music, and like Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, it uses music to connect the dots in a thrilling story of art and society, of tradition and wild, idiosyncratic creativity.
Author: Ursula Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the unique authority of his personal papers, her intimate knowledge of the man in the last years of his life, and the imaginative, insight of a professional writer, Mrs. Vaughan Williams has drawn the portrait of a great Englishman.--Times Literary Supplement Essential reading More ... for anyone who cares deeply about the music of this great composer ... Her writing is so fluent and her expository skill so detailed and fine that the result makes one want to turn again to the music about which one has been reading ... Surely definitive ... this enthralling book is thoroughly recommended.
Author: Edward Seckerson
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0857128493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMahler’s life was a remarkably complex one, his success as a conductor continually overshadowed by his craving for recognition as a composer. Recognition which never came in his lifetime. In this biography, the author reveals how Mahler’s personality, his extraordinary life and his music are inseparable. New light is shed on his strange relationship with Alma Mahler, his wife, and on his turbulent love affairs. In Vienna, where he directed the Opera, Mahler was a prime target for rumour mongers. Nothing he did, whether private or public, escaped the attention of a Vienna avid for details of his personal life. The author portrays vividly the conflict which arose from the demands made on Mahler by his enormously successful career, and his desperate desire to pursue the creation of great music. Illustrated with portraits of the people who made up Mahler’s world and photographs of places associated with him, this book unfolds Mahler’s story with impressive psychological insight.
